Poetry
SHANE OMAR Prelude / Running Wire / Dear John
ASH BOWEN Based on a True Story / Collect Call
LUCIA PERILLO At the Hatchery
RACHEL HADAS Macbeth
BRIAN TEARE Star Thistle (Centaurea solstitialis)
JAMES ARTHUR In Praise of the Indeterminate / Utopia
BOB HICOK The gift / beast empathy
CARRIE SHIPERS Ezekiel / Babel
Fiction
JOHN PICARD Souvenir de Paris, 2002
EMILY MITCHELL On Friendship
REYNA FEIGHNER BOOTH Cat People
JUSTIN QUARRY Home Schooling
KIRSTIN ALLIO Green
MARY RECHNER The Loop Trail
WILLIAM DONOGHUE The Handbag Incident
Provocations
ROGER SHATTUCK Nineteen Theses on Literature
Remembrances
ROBERT WEIL Remembering Roger Shattuck
Art
PETER PLAGENS Leo Castelli and the New World
Translations
BUDDHADEVA BOSE Gagan Baran’s Tale, from My Kind of Girl
(translated by ARUNAVA SINHA)
PHILIPPE JACCOTTET Blazon in Green and White
(translated by LUKE HANKINS)
Literary Criticism
IRA SADOFF Poetic Memory, Poetic Design
Film
JOHN A. BERTOLINI Psycho at Fifty: Pure Cinema or Invitation to an Orgy?
Literary Lives
TED BERRIGAN A Letter to Sandy / Notes on A Book of Poetry for Sandy
Reports from Abroad
ERIC CALDERWOOD The Road to Damascus
Rediscoveries
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Cuba
Cover art: Michael Mewborn
COVER ARTIST: Michael Mewborn